"My daughter is under one over there, you can just have a picnic with her spirit."

Rodney, along with a tight knit group of community supporters, is on a mission to ensure that some of the cemetery's oldest residents are not forgotten.

"We've really opened up pandora's box because we started off thinking we had three or five people that weren't marked and we started doing a bit of research and I have in my hand here a list of more than 30 people from the Rolleston district that are buried here or maybe in spots around town," he says.

"Some of them have got really interesting stories to be told and some of them don't have a memorial to them and we don't know where their bones are.

"We're definitely going to make those three or five people that we know where they are and the people that we don't know where they are, we're hoping to have some sort of memorial."

With that another grazier pulls up with a trailer in tow carrying two large boulders.

"We're collecting all the local stones that we can find and we have here Paul Stumpkat, our stone mason, so we'll get the stones to him, worked and he'll come back then and help us place them," he says.

"I think this is a project that will probably never be complete."

He says he's calling for local knowledge.

"There's absolutely no record of where these graves would be but if anybody knows where there's an old grave, please come and tell me," he says.

Rodney says the group has already raised $5,000 towards the project but hopes to secure further funding through various groups and organisations.

He says the project is very close to his heart.

""I'm 67 so I'm starting to get to the stage where I've got more mates in the cemetery than out of it," he laughs.

"Of course I did my mother's and father's headstones at Taroom and I did my uncle Dick, my brother Bruce, Tom Sanderson and then when my daughter Rachel died it carried on.

"We found a lovely rock and I just think it's really important to right the wrong of these people that have been buried but not remembered in any way.

"And also this is just such a lovely spot and I'm really passionate about the cemetery at Rolleston and I hope to be an inmate one day."